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Above all else, before playin...

Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

With opposite coloured bishop...

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

The boy (then a 12 year old b...

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

You have to accustom yourself...

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

It is a well known fact that ...

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

Chess is the art which expres...

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

When my opponent's clock is g...

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

Every great master will find ...

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

If you are going to make your...

If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

Chess, like any creative acti...

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

In short, we can see Karpov a...

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

Everything is in a state of f...

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

I claim that nothing else is ...

I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

Chess cannot be taught. Chess...

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

It must be clearly understood...

It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

I ... have two vocations: che...

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

If you are weak in the endgam...

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

Capablanca's phenomenal move-...

Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

Capablanca's play produced an...

Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

Chess cannot be taught. Chess ...

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

Michael Botvinnik 37 quotes

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